The editorial Page: What remains of Jantar mantar after the crowds have gone home 10 TUESdAy, AUGUST 4, 2026 JourNAlism of CourAge NEw DElHI, lATE CITy, 18 PAgES ₹7.00 (₹8 rAIPUr, ₹15 SrINAgAr) l www.indianexpress.com DA I ly f r O M : A H M E DA B A D , C H A N D I gA r H , D E l H I , j A I P U r , KO l K ATA , lU C K N O w , M U M B A I , N Ag P U r , PAT N A , P U N E , vA D O DA r A 3 yeArs After wrestlers comPlAineD bAnkiPur by-election Delivers stunning result BJP chief’s Patna bastion falls, PK storms into House Former Wrestling Federation of india chief Brij Bhushan sharan singh, a former BJP mP, at his residence in new delhi, monday. PrAvEEN KHANNA Sexual harassment case: Brij Bhushan acquitted, Vinesh says will file appeal Reason to be happy: Ex-WFI chief; deeply saddened, have not lost hope, says Phogat nirbhay thakur New Delhi, August 3 MOre than three years after six women wrestlers accused him of sexual harassment, Brij BhushanSharanSingh,whowas a BJP MP then and also presidentoftheWrestlingFederation ofindia(WFi), wasacquittedby a delhi court Monday. Vinod tomar, the then assistant Secretary of the WFi, was also acquitted in the case. a detailed order is awaited. Of the six complainants, two later turned hostile. in allega- tions levelled by a third complainant, charges were not framed. in first remarks after his acquittal by additional Chief Judicial Magistrate ashwani Panwar of the rouse avenue Court, Singh, who was present in the court, later said: “Meri pehli baat sahi hui. Mujhe saamne waale ke baare me pata nahi tha... Meri first pratikriya yehi thi ki main swatah faansiparlatakjaaunga...Aaj prasannata ka vishay hai (Whatisaidinitiallyhasturned »continueD on PAge 2 Jan Suraaj leader gets backing from across groups, BJP worry is erosion of upper-caste base santosh singh, himanshu harsh & vikas Pathak Patna, New Delhi, August 3 Bringing the BJP’s threedecade-runinPatna’sBankipur assembly constituency to an end, Jan Suraaj Party (JSP) founder Prashant Kishor wrestedtheseatfromtheruling party in an assembly bypoll on Monday. Kishor defeated his nearestrivalneerajKumarofthe BJPby19,324votes.infirstcomments after the win, Kishor said the BJP’s “30-year fortress has collapsed in just 30 days”. the political strategistturned-JSP leader had framed this election as a “referendum” on the tenure of Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary, who assumed office in april. Kishor said the BJP-led ruling alliance should have appointed a CM “with an unblemished image”. »continueD on PAge 2 ediTorial page the OUtsider is in: patna sends a Message via pk p 10 Jan suraaj Party chief Prashant kishor celebrates with supporters in Patna, monday. PTI Message for BJP from within and allies: Core base can change mind liz mathew & santosh singh New Delhi, Patna, August 3 the BJP’s loss in the by-electionstotheBankipuranddatia assemblyseatsinBihar and Madhya Pradesh, respectively, reflects two fault lines that should worry the party. One,thattheBJP’score support base may be showing cracks, and that its attempts at agenerationalshiftaremeeting strong internal resistance. inprivate,ndaalliestalked of the results being a warning that voters, even in BJP bastions, “could not be taken for granted”, and that “arrogance of power would be punished” by them. a senior leader of the Jd(U),theBJP’sallyinpowerin E. »continueD on PAge 2 Business as Usual By EP UNNY Live-in relationship a reality, law on cruelty to partner applies: SC Ananthakrishnan g New Delhi, August 3 Bjp retains ManjalpUr seat in gUjarat page 6 Underlining that “live-in relationships are today, more or less, a reality”, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that not only husbands but men in livein relations and their relatives too can be prosecuted under Section498aoftheindianPenal Codeforcrueltytotheirpartners where such relationship is between two consenting adults. the bench of Justice Sanjay KarolandJusticenKSinghsaid the provision is applicable to “live-inrelationships”thatqualify as “relationships in the nature of marriage” with “the in- Conversation with Rajan Anandan, Pratyush Kumar Co-presented by Celebration Partner Experience Partner rajan anandan (right), md, Peak XV Partners, and Pratyush kumar (second from right), co-founder and ceo of sarvam ai, in conversation with anant Goenka, executive director, indian express Group, and soumyarendra Barik, assistant editor, The Indian Express, in mumbai, monday. SANKHADEEP BANErjEE LNG imports rise as US, Nigeria and happening today Oman offset Hormuz volume loss sukalp sharma limportsinmay-July New Delhi, August 3 agilityinrampingupliquefied natural gas (lng) imports from regions that were not impacted by the Strait of hormuz crisis helped india import higher volumes of the superchilled gas in the May-July period, after seeing a dip in import volumes in March and april — the initial two months of the West asia war, according to latest ship-tracking data. suPPlier U.S. Nigeria Oman Angola UAE Qatar Others Total volumes chAnge (mn tn) y-o-y (%) 2.19 252.8 1.31 123.8 1.22 340.9 0.80 71.3 0.55 -34.4 0.23 -91.3 0.78 6.9 7.08 15.4 SOUrCE: KPlEr evenastheeffectiveclosure of the strait forced a crash in lng imports from india’s largest supplier Qatar, the rampupincargoesfromadiversified pool of sources, including the US,Oman,nigeriaandangola, came to the rescue. While some major lng importing countries reduced imports amid sky-high prices due to the regional conflict and the disruption in maritime movements via the critical »continueD on PAge 2 lAAP nAtionAl convenor and former Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal will lead a march to the the Prime Minister’s residence to submit petitions against E20 ethanol-blended petrol. Track This and more on www.indianexpress.com The world page 12 iran says nO talks gOing On with U.s. l LaUnched BY reGULaTor, PaTienTs shoULd reGisTer in hosPiTaLs New real-time portal for organ transplants: National wait lists, Aadhaar-linked pledges Anonna Dutt tion of recipients. Officials said the portal’s launch, by the national Organ the natiOnal regulator and tissue transplant Organoverseeing organ transplanta- isation(nOttO),marksamajor tion has launched a dynamic, step towards making the organ real-timeportalandmobileap- transplantation system more plication that will transparent, effipage 1 generate a countrycient and equitable. wide waiting list and accordingtooffiupdate the status of cials, the creation of recipients waiting for organs. a unified waiting list, real-time the portal will also allow hos- tracking of organ allocation, pitals, states and regional nationwide matching of swap bodies to raise “super urgent” donors and recording of transrequests based on the condi- plantoutcomesareaimedatre- New Delhi, August 3 anchor l organtransplantsinindiain2025 living donor transplants 16,612 Deceased donor transplants 3,526 20,138 14,477 liver transplants 5,154 Heart transplants 239 lung transplants 210 Pancreas transplants TOTAl Kidney transplants 35 SOUrCE: NOTTO ANNUAl rEPOrT ducing delays, improving accountability and maximising the utilisation of donated or- gans. it strengthens coordination among hospitals and »continueD on PAge 2 New Delhi tent to marry being established as an intrinsic part thereof”. the bench said a woman in a “relationship in the nature of marriage” shall be protected under Section 498a, giving the word “husband” a purposive interpretation, keeping in view “the reformative, corrective andsociallybeneficialintentof the Section”. “Cruelty, any which way, does not check at the door, whether the house it enters is thatofamarriedwomanornot. Once it enters, its propensity to destroy is aggravated,” it said. thebenchalsodirectedthat the guidelines laid down »continueD on PAge 2
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